This Free Will - Jethro Tull

She peeled from a stretch black snake

Which slipped up to the hotel door

Darting looks from piercing eyes --

The stir of memory and then no more

Well, you know how I have to believe --

She can almost remember my name

It’s been a long time coming, babe --

Long time loose amongst foreign hills --

Shaking my faith in this free will

Years ago in a coastal town

Mosquitoes buzzed in her hair

Schooldress torn and bare feet brown --

Then the rains came and she wasn’t there

You’re closing your doors on me

When you had almost remembered my name

It’s been a long time coming, babe --

Long time loose amongst foreign hills --

Shaking my faith in this free will

Sharp points in an ink black sky --

Faint words collide, then are lost

I’ll follow you beneath this dome --

Win you back at any cost

I know we were children then

But you can almost remember my name

It’s been a long time coming, babe --

Long time loose amongst foreign hills --

Well, let’s be children still --

Don’t shake my faith in this free will

Don’t shake my faith in this free will